Potential Titles: Themself/Themselves

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Who suture themselves in silence - Rasha Abdulhadi "sirens and silence"

I know of no devils who evict themselves - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

Before they themselves are swallowed by the sky - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"

Became greater and greater strangers to themselves - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"

Were barely memories of themselves - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"

Birds that freed themselves from the cages of our bodies - Duane Ackerson "What If"

The stars drag themselves out from my body - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Whispers exposed themselves as arrogant echoes - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

That makes the walls themselves remember - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

The spectacle of stars turning in on themselves - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Washed themselves in salted rivers - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

The birds that sing themselves the moon - Tristan Beiter "The Birds Singing in the Rocks"

Chaste paradigms that never sold themselves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"

The headlines wrote themselves - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"

Deliver themselves one photon at a time - Jaswinder Bolina "Apologia Matilde"

My bones will announce themselves - William Brewer "Resolution"

Like to identify themselves with lions - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"

Never, never have forgot themselves - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"

Do but themselves confound - John Bunyan "True Valour"

Or veil themselves in purple light - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"

The lilacs brace themselves for this sort of blue - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"

Attach themselves as scars - Lucille Clifton "sorrow"

Row themselves slowly through eternity - Billy Collins "The Dead"

And bound themselves, by kisses twelve - "Come Lasses and Lads"

Your staircases looping themselves with infinite regularity - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"

Its shapes introduce themselves - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"

And drink, themselves, the bitter cup they mix - Rev. William Crowe "Verses Intended to Have Been Spoken in the Theatre to the Duke of Portland, at His Installation as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in the Year 1793"

Consume themselves with thinking - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

Mirrors holding themselves toward the light - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"

Wear themselves ruthless for a sounding name - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

When the ceilings lower themselves - Harriet Dean "Blue-Prints: The Pillar"

The notes themselves were sneak attacks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"

Shape themselves around that one bright seizure - Rita Dove "Prose in a Small Space"

Strip themselves of asylum - Camonghne Felix "Beer Pong"

Passing themselves on the way out - Nick Flynn "The Incomprehensibility"

To spill themselves like flowers - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

And end in embers of themselves - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"

Constructed themselves around you - Kimberly Grey "Invention"

Where exiles with dictionaries lose themselves - Marilyn Hacker "Interval"

Let pythons wrap themselves around you - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

Knives to protect themselves from ghosts - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

And curse themselves silent - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Praeludium"

Counting themselves no kin of anything - Robinson Jeffers "Mountain Pines"

Cement themselves to the silky water - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

Heaping upon themselves more deep damnation - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Lost themselves in reflected rivers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Angling themselves against the waves - Christopher Kondrich "Beach Scene"

Thought themselves safe from obligation - R.B. Lemberg "Between the Mountain and the Moon"

All the multiverses looping upon themselves - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Strangle themselves against my fingers - Amy Lowell "Grotesque"

Folding into the dim fringes of themselves - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

Weep themselves away in rain - Robert Montgomery "Mortality" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Expressed themselves with thorns and sudden blossoms - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Robins band themselves together - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

Deliver themselves unto the universe - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"

And tied themselves to stars - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

The myth of themselves - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"

Like the storm-shook shadows of themselves - Carl Phillips "Rockabye"

Ranging themselves over enormous autumn - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

Dandelions bowing gravely to themselves - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

Let the stars belong to themselves - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

To revenge themselves on winter's north wind cold - Friedrich Schiller "Thoughts on the 1st October, 1781"

The ones that scream to announce themselves - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Cleave themselves to chasms - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Shaped themselves into a strange string of eons - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 188: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Made stars to cover themselves - Mary Szybist "Wafian as in Waven as in Wif"

Let the patterns arrange themselves - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Fleeing night creatures undoing themselves above the streetlights - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

Where the hickory trees start themselves - Bradley Trumpfheller "Loom"

Thus the stately gods themselves - Louis Untermeyer "Isadora Duncan Dancing"

Sustains themself on empty speech - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Rebuilds themself out of distances - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Someone names themself in the loss - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

The stars themselves did nothing - Derek Walcott "Steam"

Rails forever parallel return on themselves - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"

Lose themselves mid groves and copses - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

Shield themselves with bladed rocks - Assétou Xango "Terpsichore"


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